Here, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen’s private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, , which bears comparison with the fiction of Kafka and Beckett; a selection of entries from his notebooks dealing with topics as various as whether or not there is an “animal Jahweh” and the aesthetic limitations of the cinema; a trio of essays on his native city of Trieste; and a sampling of his editorial letters. is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature.